What was life like for the grunts in country, humping the boonies?Using the various resources in and out of class, your task is to give a voice to a Vietnam soldier.Your soldier will be in the form of a**voicethread**that will be embedded in your Unit 8 notebook.You may work with up to two other people on the assignment, as long as you all work together!The expectations are …
You have a voicethread with images of soldiers from Vietnam.You should have no more than three images or three slides on your voicethread.
Your annotations should all be completed in first person and should contain detail and historical fact.
Your annotations must cover the following topics:
Three annotations about the challenges you faced in guerilla warfare
Two annotations describing the enemy (the Viet Cong and/or NVA)
One annotation describing the tunnels
One annotation describing the use of chemicals by the military
One annotation describing search and destroy missions
One annotation describing the Tet Offensive
One annotation describing escalation
One annotation describing the draft
One annotation describing your feelings as a soldier
Two to three of your annotations should be spoken
Use our class activities and video, Creating America (pp 840-845) and some of the links below for information.
When you create your voicethread and and your annotations and comments, click on "PUBLISHING OPTIONS" on the bottom of the screen and make sure you"ALLOW ANYONE TO VIEW" the voicethread. If you want a partner to comment on it, allow "ANONE TO COMMENT". Embed your voicethread on a new page in your Unt 8 notebook by clicking on "EMBED" on the bottom of the voicethread, copying the code, clicking "Embed Widget" in wikispaces (the little TV set, and paste the code in the "Other HTML"
section. Easy stuff.
Type in the content of your page here.Image from http://www.lcompanyranger.com/usweapons/sniperrifletmac.jpg
What was life like for the grunts in country, humping the boonies? Using the various resources in and out of class, your task is to give a voice to a Vietnam soldier. Your soldier will be in the form of a **voicethread** that will be embedded in your Unit 8 notebook. You may work with up to two other people on the assignment, as long as you all work together! The expectations are …
Use our class activities and video, Creating America (pp 840-845) and some of the links below for information.
- From ABC-CLIO - Tet Offensive, Agent Orange, tunnel rats, napalm
- Guerilla Warfare in Vietnam
- The Tet Offensive
- Vietnam Era Lottery Results
- animations - war in Southeast Asia, tunnels, Tet Offensive
- video - Underground Tunnels and The Tet Offensive
Want to spice up your annotations with some grunt language? Check out http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/language.htmlImages of soldiers from the Vietnam conflict
VOICETHREAD INSTRUCTIONS
When you create your voicethread and and your annotations and comments, click on "PUBLISHING OPTIONS" on the bottom of the screen and make sure you"ALLOW ANYONE TO VIEW" the voicethread. If you want a partner to comment on it, allow "ANONE TO COMMENT". Embed your voicethread on a new page in your Unt 8 notebook by clicking on "EMBED" on the bottom of the voicethread, copying the code, clicking "Embed Widget" in wikispaces (the little TV set, and paste the code in the "Other HTML"
section. Easy stuff.